In those balmy born yesterdays, post World Waer2, the StudioCity Republic studio casting, starred Gene Autry, Gabby Hayes , Andy Devine, Smiley Burnet, Rin tin tin.
The Ventura Boulevard and Laurel Canyon vibes included and a restaurant bearing the name of Gene Autry’s nemesis……. JulieStyne was writing *songs, while his partner Sammy Cahn, was calibrating the melody and rhythm in cadence with Gene Autry’sguitar…and the galloping hoof beats of “Champion “ .
*”How do you speak to an Angel?”
II
Who knew the quest for stardom, could transcend Dickens’s “Great Expectations” that “Dutch”, a Warner Brothers actordown the road in Burbank, who played the “ Gipper” in “KnuteRockne” would become Ronald Regan, the Governor ofCalifornia, and hence the springboard to the White House….not once, but twice as he and his strong minded wife Nancy, ”Our fates are tied with the alignment of the stars in the ceiling of our skies” resurged and galvanized the discovery of the prophecy…
”Mister Wyman as first marriage culminated with his actress wife awarded an Oscar for her role in “Johnny Belinda”, a tour de force for her…a blind lady, pulling all the emotional strings.
III
“Win one for the Gipper” echoed Pat O’Brien as “KnuteRockne” in the Notre Dame locker room at half time.. . little did he know the dialogue and cheer leading at half time was a tonic, to “Dutch” being a a spokesman for General Electric, would go on into politics and score more than touchdowns as he fought out the second half of his locker room heroics, with wife Nancy at his side .
Yet Phil Reagan, played out his role as a New York City singingcop , a far cry from those “pep talks” in the Notre Dame locker room.
“Win one for the Gipper!”
March 9, 2015. The City that never sleeps.
